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ACC talks COVID protocols

By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register

With spring classes just days from starting, Allen Community College is adjusting its COVID-19 protocols.

Cynthia Jacobson, vice president for student affairs, told ACC trustees Tuesday the college is shortening the time for isolation or quarantine periods if a student or college employee were to test positive for the coronavirus.

If somebody tests positive for the virus, they must isolate for five days, down from 10, provided they have no symptoms, or the symptoms are resolving.

The new guidelines mirror the updated recommendations by the Centers

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Highway work tacks south

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

A highway improvement project between Humboldt and Chanute could cause a bit of a traffic headache for local industries and businesses, but it shouldn’t take too long, county commissioners learned.

In highway construction terms, that means about six months.

Engineers from the Kansas Department of Transportation met with commissioners Tuesday morning to review the timeline and route for a construction project on U.S. 169.

Parts of the 13-mile improvement project in Neosho and Allen counties have been underway near Chanute for several months. A five-mile stretch from Chanute to Earlton opened in December, followed by the closing of three miles between K-39 and Plummer Avenue.

In late July, a section be-

KDOT engineers Wayne Gudmonson, left, and Troy Howard explain detour routes for a planned improvement project on U.S. 169 south of Humboldt, which starts this summer. Commissioners, from left, are Chairman Jerry Daniels, David Lee and Bruce Symes. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS tween Plummer and the Humboldt-Chanute Road will close including a section north to railroad overpass. That will complicate truck traffic to Humboldt industries, including Monarch Cement and

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Commissioners have been concerned about the impact on those businesses, as well as others.

They believe trucks can use county roads, and have asked

for a review of weight limits on bridges.

Mitch Garner, public works director, said four bridges have a 15-ton weight limit.

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Iola goes 1-and-3 against Wellsville

PAGE A6 Construction crews work on masonry and other aspects of the new Iola Elementary School at Kentucky and Monroe streets.

Fauci calls Kansas’ Marshall ‘a moron’

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Quick thinking, planning key in fire

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COVID slows progress at elementary school

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

Progress on the new Iola Elementary School will depend on COVID-19.

School board president Dan Willis gave board members a construction update on Monday night.

About 100 workers are on site at the elementary school building at any one time, but work can easily be derailed by

a COVID case.

In several cases, crews carpool to Iola from other cities.

If one of those workers gets sick, the entire crew has to quarantine.

That sets other projects behind.

For example, he said, say a van full of plumbers from Wichita has a case of COVID. That crew can’t work. Masons have to wait on the plumbing.

Electricians have to wait on

the masons.

Willis said he is still hopeful the project will be completed this summer and open for the next school year.

“If you can tell me COVID isn’t going to be a problem, we’ll make that date,” Willis said.

He also addressed cracks in the concrete base. New board member John Wilson recently toured the facility and said he was concerned with the

cracks.

That’s actually a normal part of the process, Willis said. School board members and administrators asked the same question, he told Wilson.

Concrete typically cracks as it cures and settles, architects told him. Fault lines are built into the process to account for cracking, but it hapSee SCHOOL | Page A6

Kansas governor seeks tuition freeze, calls state healthier

By JOHN HANNA The Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Laura Kelly called Tuesday for another freeze in tuition at Kansas colleges in a State of the State address that portrayed the state as booming economically and previewed what are likely to be major themes in her reelection campaign.

The Democratic governor didn’t provide details about her college tuition proposal in the annual address, say- Gov. Kelly ing only that it is part of the proposed state budget that her administration will outline today. Kelly

already is pushing to eliminate the state’s sales tax on groceries and give a $250 rebate to every Kansas resident who filed a state income tax return last year.

Her proposals on taxes and college tuition come ahead of a tough reelection race with three-term state Attorney General Derek Schmidt as the presumed Republican nominee. Kelly will need support

from moderate GOP and independent voters to win another four-year term in her Republican-leaning state, and she’s been making moves to appeal to them that include opposing federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates from Democratic President Joe Biden.

Kelly suggested that the state’s improved finances and the coronavirus pandemic warranted a tuition freeze at

state colleges.

“This pandemic has created so many strains, so many stressors and so many challenges,” Kelly told lawmakers. “We cannot let it derail the careers or the dreams of our young people.”

Republicans saw Kelly’s 49-minute address as a pitch aimed at voters, not lawmakers.

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Obituaries Jean Qualls Jean Qualls, 80, passed away Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022, at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis in Wichita.

Iva Jean Lorraine Settlemyer was born on April 18, 1941, in northern Allen County, on her family farm.

She graduated from Colony high school and after formal training she worked as a lab technician at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita. In 1965, Jean Qualls at the age of 24, she married Larry Qualls in Derby, and they began their life together. In 1970, their family moved west to Liberal. As a confident homemaker, she lovingly took care of her family and home as Larry lead several business ventures throughout the years. In 1983, Jean and Larry became business owners of the town grocery store, Larry’s Jack & Jill, as well as the convenience store in Satanta. In 1998, the family relocated to Garden City, where they entered the car wash business. They purchased, owned and operated several carwashes in Southwest Kansas. Jean and Larry enjoyed being proud partners of D&S Car Wash Systems. In 2011, Jean and Larry moved back to South Central Kansas and made their home in Derby.

Jean was a gentle spirit. She loved to laugh and had a light-hearted approach towards life. Even in tough times she was able to keep a positive attitude with her motto “one day at a time.” Jean found joy in gardening, shopping, playing cards, listening to music, watching Western films, spending time with her family and spoiling her grandkids.

She is preceded in death by her parents, her sister Mary Lou Hadley and brother Gordon Settlemyer.

She is survived by her husband of 55 years, Larry Qualls (Derby); daughters: Joan Parsons (Derby), Donna Merz (Wichita), Stephanie Hull (David) (Derby); 11 grandchildren: Aubrey Fassiotto (Cory), Lucas Whippo, Kyle Merz, Drew Merz, Austin Merz, Briceson Merz, Brittany Hoag (Aaron), Brooke Rinehart (Colby), Bret Hull, Brylee Hull and Brynlan Hull; seven great-grandchildren; her brother, Vernon Settlemyer (Ruth); and two sisters, Diana Davidson (Lloyd) and Karen Allen (Glen).

A funeral service to honor the life of Jean will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 13, at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service in Iola. Family will greet friends prior to the service, starting at 9 a.m. at the funeral home. Burial will follow the service at Geneva Cemetery in Colony.

Memorials are suggested to the American Heart Association or the American Diabetes Association and may be left with the funeral home or mailed to 1883 U.S. Highway 54, Iola, KS 66749. Condolences may be left at www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

Gary Schainost Gary Evan Schainost, 58, Colony, died Monday, Jan. 10, 2022, at St. Luke’s Hospice House, Kansas City, Mo. Gary was born Oct. 7, 1963, in Garnett, to Clark Schainost and Christine (Hoffman) Schainost.

Gary and Tracy LaCrone were married Aug. 10, 1985, in Colony. Gary was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Bailey Collins.

Gary is survived by his wife, Tracy, of the home; daughters, Kristin (Christopher) Collins, El Dorado, and Patience (Trey) Kress, Iola; son, Tanner (Alisha) Schainost, Pittsburg; and mother, Christine Schainost, Colony.

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 18, at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service, 1883 U.S. 54, Iola. Burial will follow in the Colony Cemetery.

A visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.

Memorials are suggested to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and may be left with the funeral home.

Condolences may be sent to www.feuerbornfuneral.com.

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) asks Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House chief medical advisor and director of the NIAID, about gain of function research during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing Tuesday in Washington. GETTY IMAGES/GREG NASH/TNS

Senate hearing gets testy Fauci calls KS senator a ‘moron’

By DANIEL DESROCHERS McClatchy News

Dr. Anthony Fauci called Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall a “moron” on Tuesday after a tense exchange over Fauci’s financial disclosures, a sign of the increasing hostility between conservatives and one of the nation’s top COVID-19 experts.

Toward the end of a more-than-three-hour Senate Health Committee meeting, Marshall pointed to Fauci’s government salary of more than $400,000 and asked whether he would make his financial disclosure available to the public.

Fauci is a government employee and his financial disclosure forms are available to the public and can be accessed through a Freedom of Information Act request.

“Wouldn’t you agree with me that you see things before members of Congress would see them, so that there’s an air of appearance that maybe some shenanigans are going on,” Marshall said. “I assume that’s not the case.”

When Fauci called Marshall “misinformed” and said his financial disclosure is public information and

available upon request, Marshall said his office had been unable to find the information.

As Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran prepared to ask a question, Fauci was caught on the microphone saying “what a moron.”

In a press release after the hearing, Marshall doubled down and said Fauci was “clearly distraught by the line of questioning.”

“Calling me a moron during a Senate hearing may have alleviated the stress of the least trusted bureaucrat in America, but it didn’t take away from the facts,” Marshall said.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is headed by Fauci, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Fauci was testifying with Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control, and Janet Woodcock, acting commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, about the current surge of COVID-19 cases spreading through the country as a result of the omicron variant.

Throughout the pandemic, Fauci has been a target of conservatives who have chafed at the way the government

has handled health restrictions.

But nearly two years into the pandemic, tension has ratcheted up between Fauci and conservatives in Congress, where there is a partisan divide over who wears masks in the hallways and in the chamber.

SEN. RAND Paul, who has been a frequent critic, has called Fauci “a lead architect” of the government’s response to the virus, from shutting down businesses at the beginning of the pandemic to urging people to wear a mask and get vaccinated.

Earlier in the committee hearing, Marshall, an obstetrician and gynecologist, questioned Fauci about his role in authorizing “gain of function” research, a type of experiment where scientists change a virus to make it more potent as a way to study its effects. Marshall has said he would like a ban on gain of function research and has made investigating the origins of COVID-19 a core platform for his first year in office.

Fauci also clashed with Paul over an email exchange between him and former director of the National Institutes of Health Francis Collins, in which Collins and Fauci discussed

how to combat what they called a “fringe” narrative about the pandemic raised by epidemiologists at prestigious universities.

In response, Fauci held up a print-out of Paul’s Senate campaign website, where there is a picture of Fauci next to the text “Fire Dr. Fauci” and several buttons where people can make donations to the campaign. Fauci talked about how he has gotten death threats after similar exchanges with Paul and said a man who was arrested driving from Sacramento to Washington, D.C. with an AR-15 and ammunition said he was going there to kill Fauci.

“He’s doing this for political reasons,” Fauci said.

Fauci has often drawn the ire of activists. In the 1980s, he was among those criticized for the government’s slow response to the AIDS epidemic. Members of ACT UP burned him in effigy outside of the NIH building during one protest.

But Fauci, who later became friends with some ACT UP leaders, has drawn a distinction between activists fighting for more resources for people with the disease and those who have criticized him for public health measures intended to decrease the spread of the virus.

Investigators hunt for cause of house fire that killed 7-year-old Topeka boy TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A 7-year-old boy was killed and two others were injured in a Topeka house fire, authorities say.

Heavy smoke was pouring from the home when firefighters ar-

rived Monday morning, The Topeka Capital-Journal reports.

Alan Stahl, of the Topeka Fire Department, said crews had been advised that there might be trapped victims. Firefighters attacked the blaze

and found the boy, AlexA third person was ander Servantez, and a taken to the hospital with woman inside. Both were injuries that weren’t consuffering from life-threat- sidered life-threatening, ening injuries when they while a fourth person eswere taken to a hospital, caped unhurt, Stahl said. where the boy died.

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vivors weren’t immediately released.

Stahl said the cause of the fire is under investigation, but foul play is not suspected.

There were no working

smoke detectors in the house, Stahl added.

Damages were estimated at $120,000, including $80,000 to the house and $40,000 to its contents, Stahl said.

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President Biden urges filibuster changes to protect voting rights

By ELI STOKOLS Los Angeles Times/TNS

WASHINGTON — President Biden, in a fiery speech Tuesday in Atlanta, called for changing Senate rules in order to pass voting rights protections, going further than he has before in an effort to unify Senate Democrats around what he framed as an existential issue for the country.

Biden, whose support for the legislative filibuster has softened in recent months, endorsed changing the rule that allows the minority party to block any bill that doesn’t receive 60 votes.

Lamenting that the Senate where he served 36 years “has been rendered a shell of its former self,” Biden said that if Republicans continue to block debate on two voting rights bills, “we have no option but to change the Senate rules ... whichever way they need to be changed.

Decrying a spate of new restrictive voting laws Republicans enacted last year in 19 states, including Georgia, Biden blasted Republicans still in thrall to a “defeated former president” and his effort “to disenfranchise anyone who votes against him.” His impas-

President Joe Biden speaks about voting rights at Clark Atlanta University on Tuesday. (BEN GRAY/THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION/TNS)

sioned case for action to protect voting rights was about appeasing party activists as well as securing the necessary votes in Washington.

“As an institutionalist, I believe that the threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills,” Biden said during a speech at the Atlanta University Center Consortium, a consortium of four historically Black colleges and universities. “Let the majority prevail.”

Noting the difficulty of passing legislation out of an evenly divided Senate — “we have 51 presidents,” he quipped — Biden urged a small group of holdouts within his own party to consider how their position on this civil rights issue

may define their legacy.

“I ask every elected official in America: Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace?” Biden said. “The side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? The side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?”

The Senate, which Democrats control based on Vice President Kamala Harris’ ability to cast a tiebreaking 51st vote, is poised this week to consider two Democratic measures, previously blocked in the chamber, that aim to defang many of the new voting laws in GOP-led states.

Harris, speaking ahead of Biden, invoked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words from decades ago, warning against complacency and acceptance in the

face of partisan voting restrictions. “Anti-voter laws are not new in our nation, but we must not be deceived into thinking they are normal,” she said. “We must not be deceived into thinking a law that makes it more difficult for students to vote is normal.”

Republican senators, she continued, have “exploited arcane rules to block [Democratic voting] bills,” rebutting GOP claims of precedent around the filibuster by asserting that “nowhere does the Constitution give a minority the right to unilaterally block legislation.

“The Senate must act,” she continued. “We cannot tell [future generations] that we let a Senate rule stand in the way of our most fundamental freedom.”

The speeches are the sort of energetic, full-throated push for action on the issue of voting rights that many activists have been waiting for since Biden was inaugurated. Several, dismayed that the president until now prioritized a bipartisan infrastructure law and a nowstalled effort to enhance

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Jarred, Gilmore and Phillips P.A., was concluding his audit report — no major issues were found — when he was notified that his car had been hit by a student in the parking lot during the meeting.

“There goes the audit next year,” trustee Vicki Curry joked.

“If we could turn back to the insurance section,” Jarred replied, eliciting a hearty round of laughter from the audience.

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THE trustees board has a vacancy to fill.

The remaining five members formally accepted Mark Peters’ resignation, before he had a chance to be sworn in.

Peters, who also serves on the Iola City Council, had run for the trustees seat as a

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write-in candidate in November, and was subsequently elected.

However, he learned of an attorney general’s opinion after the fact, discouraging elected officials from serving on both the college board and as an elected city councilman, citing potential conflicts of interest.

Rather than contest the issue, Peters said he would eschew serving on the college board.

The college will accept applications for prospective board members, with the hopes of appointing a replacement prior to the trustees’ Feb. 8 meeting.

Those wishing to serve are asked to contact President John Masterson, (620) 9016341, or via email at masterson@allencc.edu.

but I don’t blame her,” said Senate President Ty Masterson, an Andover Republican. “I mean, if it was my election year, I’d be in campaign mode, too.”

The governor’s tuition proposal follows years of concerns about rising college costs — and efforts by both legislators and the state Board of Regents to contain them. The board, which oversees the state’s higher education system, last year froze fall tuition at the state’s six universities, except for Kansas State University. At some universities, tuition has been frozen three years.

Yet costs for students and their families are much higher than they were 15 years ago and now approach $5,600 a semester in tuition and academic fees at the University of Kansas for a full-time Kansas undergraduate — almost 82% more. At Kansas State, the same costs for a similar student have grown 80% and now top $5,200 a semester.

“In a sense, calling for tuition to remain flat isn’t anything new because the regents have been leading on that,” Schmidt said, adding that he hopes Kelly is seeking more funding for higher education and used a “sort of politically correct way” to signal it.

Much of Kelly’s address to a joint session of the GOP-controlled Legislature focused on the state’s financial recovery, despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Kansas previously endured persistent budget shortfalls following a nationally notorious GOP experiment in cutting income taxes from 2012 into 2017.

With no tax cuts or huge surge in state spending this year, Kansas would be on track to end June 2023 with roughly $3.9 billion in cash reserves.

“Kansans want their government to focus on the day-to-day needs that most of us can agree on and not on the ideological issues or the culture wars that divide us,” Kelly said.

Schmidt and other Republicans argue that the good times are being fueled mostly by the billions of dollars in pandemic relief funds sent to the states by the federal government.

Schmidt on Sunday proposed dedicating $1 billion to shoring up the state pension system for teachers and government workers

— an idea top Republican lawmakers have endorsed.

Meanwhile, Kelly tried to project a bipartisan image, invoking the late Kansas political icon Bob Dole, a former U.S. Senate majority leader and the 1996 Republican presidential nominee who died last month at the age of 98. Her speech also included a passing, positive reference to former President Donald Trump.

“We can put allegiance to Kansans ahead of allegiance to political party,” Kelly said. “We can be as good and as decent as the people who sent us here.”

But Schmidt said Kelly “talked a lot about baseball and apple pie” and other Republicans worried that the governor is promoting greater government spending that will erase the states cash reserves quickly.

“This is, ‘Let’s throw out all the red meat we can; hopefully it will stick out there, and people will love me,’” said House Majority Leader Dan Hawkins, a Wichita Republican.

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PHIL JARRED’S visit with trustees was an eventful one, and it had nothing to do with Tuesday’s audit report he delivered.

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New Allen Community College Board of Trustees member Jessica Thompson, left, listens to the meeting, along with Roberta Nickel, director of finance and operations. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

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For Disease Control, Jacobson noted.

Anyone who has been exposed to the virus can stay on campus if they have been vaccinated with a booster, and (if possible) submit to a COVID test on the fifth day.

Exposure, without proof of vaccination, means staying home for five days, Jacobson said.

The college will host a vaccination clinic on Jan. 27 for students and staff. The clinic will offer first or second shots or boosters, Jacobson said.

She encouraged anyone wishing to take part to notify her beforehand, so organizers can ensure sufficient vaccine supplies are provided.

The college will continue to mandate masks for anyone inside campus buildings, Jacobson noted.

With the federal government no longer funding PCR tests, the college has acquired 200 “rapid” rests, similar to what area school districts offer, Jacobson said.

Classes will begin next Tuesday, with students slated to return to the campus dorms on Monday. (Athletes already are on campus following the winter break).

The Allen Student Senate has a number of activities planned in the coming weeks, noted Kyla McLaughlin, Student Senate president.

A Red Cross blood drive is set for Jan. 31, with donors entered into a drawing for a chance to win Super Bowl tickets. Homecoming is set for Feb. 12.

liver for bridges, and now we need to see him do the same for voting rights,” King said.

Although Biden’s shift on the filibuster reflects the new consensus among Senate Democrats, he still doesn’t have the necessary votes.

Changing the rule itself in order to pass voting rights legislation requires the support of all 50 Democratic senators.

At least two of them, Sens. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have both said they oppose the change.

Thus far, Manchin has shown himself to be impervious to pressure from the White House, if not prickly about it. Just before Christmas, upset that the White House had issued a statement citing his opposition to a major piece of its legislative agenda as a primary reason a vote on the bill was being delayed, he blindsided Biden by going on television to announce he opposed the president’s $1.8-trillion “Build Back Better” proposal, a package of tax credits and benefits for working families.

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the social safety net over voting rights, opted not to attend the speech and made clear they won’t be satisfied with more words, only action by the Senate.

“It sets a serious precedent that at the end of the day, when there are people that are coming after your base of voters, right, and you’re stringing it out, and you’re not reacting,” LaTosha Brown, a Georgia-based advocate and cofounder of Black Voters Matter, said on a call with reporters Monday.

“We don’t need another speech. What we need is actually a plan,” said Cliff Albright, executive director of the Black Voters Matter Fund.

Martin Luther King III, the son of the iconic civil rights leader, met with Biden and Harris on Tuesday, and said in an earlier statement that he understood the frustration of activists choosing not to attend but remained hopeful a push by the White House could lead to action. “We’ve seen what’s possible when President Biden uses the full weight of his office to de-

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Quick thinking, planning key in escaping a fire

By TRAVIS LOLLER The Associated Press

As smoke poured through the halls a New York City high-rise on Sunday, killing 17 people in the Bronx, tenants were faced with a life-or-death decision: Should they stay put or try to escape?

Several survivors later told reporters that when they saw their hallways fill with smoke, they returned to their apartments to await rescue rather than make a run for it.

That was the right response, according to the National Fire Protection Association, a nonprofit that writes codes and standards and educates the public about fire safety.

Just what you should do in a fire, though, depends partly on the design of the building and where the fire is located.

EVACUATION PLAN

Generally, the NFPA says people should evacuate a burning building if it is safe to do so. First, they should feel doors before opening them, leaving them closed and looking for another way out if they are hot to the touch.

Residents should shut all doors behind them to prevent the spread of smoke and fire. They should be sure to take their keys with them in case they have to return to their apartments.

In most high-rise buildings, the nearest stairwell is the emergency exit, but if it is filled with fire or smoke, people should look for another exit. If no exit is safe, they should return to their apartments and shelter in place. In the Bronx fire, survivors told reporters that both the hallways and stairwells were thick with smoke.

FIREPROOF BUILDINGS

Every apartment in New York City is required to have a notice posted on the door saying whether the building is considered combustible or non-combustible, based on the way it was constructed.

Those notices instruct people living in fireproof, high-rise buildings not to evacuate, but instead shelter in place unless the fire is in their own apartment.

The Bronx apartment building that burned is considered non-combustible, which means it has concrete poured ceilings and floors. In fact, the fire, apparently caused by a malfunc-

A firefighter carries a rescued baby during a massive fire in an apartment building in the Bronx, New York on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022. (THEODORE PARISIENNE/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/TNS) tioning space heater, did not actually spread past the unit where it started and an adjacent hallway.

But the door to the apartment where the fire started failed to close behind the fleeing tenants, letting smoke quickly spread throughout the building, including the evacuation stairwells.

Residents who shelter in place should use wet towels, wet sheets or tape to seal doors and vents and prevent smoke from entering.

They should call 911 to alert firefighters that they are trapped and give their exact location. They should also signal at a window by waving a flashlight or light-colored cloth, according to the NFPA. Trapped residents can open windows for fresh air or to signal to firefighters, but they should not break their windows. That can allow smoke to pour in from outside, leaving them with no way to keep it out.

CLOSE BEFORE YOU DOZE

Before going to bed, it’s recommended to close the bedroom door.

Oxygen is fuel to a fire.

People think, “Well, there’s smoke in my house. I want to let the smoke out.”

Yes, you’re letting the smoke out, but you’re letting the air in, and that’s where the problem occurs.

With the doors and windows closed, the fire won’t have oxygen to burn and it’s going to stay right there, giving other people in the house more time to get out

and also helping protect your property.

SMOKE VS. FIRE

Most fire deaths are not caused by burns, but by smoke inhalation, according to the NFPA. Homes today tend to contain a lot of products made with synthetic fibers that burn at very high temperatures, helping fires spread rapidly, association spokesperson Susan McKelvey said. They also generate toxic gases that can overcome people within moments. In a typical home fire, residents may have only a couple of minutes to escape safely by the time a smoke alarm sounds, she said.

“Fires spread so much faster now,” McKelvey said. “And it’s not necessarily the flames that can hurt someone.

It’s the smoke and toxic gases that make it really hard to see and breathe.”

As a fire grows inside a building, it will often consume available oxygen. The smoke also contains carbon monoxide, which works inside the body to deprive

victims of the oxygen they need. And the toxic chemicals in smoke can cause organ damage.

New York City Fire Department Chief of EMS Lillian Bonsignore compared the possible long-term impacts of intense smoke exposure to that of having a stroke.

“The cells in your body and the organs in your body are fairly sensitive,” she said. “So when you put them under this kind of stress, or this kind of toxicity or lack of oxygen, those cells may not be able to come back. So you’re left with this residual type of damage.”

PREPARATION IS KEY

The basic principals are the same whether you live in a high rise, a detached single-family home, or a row home, like the one in Philadelphia that burned last week, killing 12 people, McKelvey said.

Homes need good, working smoke detectors that are checked often. In addition, residents need to have an escape plan and practice that plan. It’s especially important to know who

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will be responsible for making sure children or people with mobility problems are safe. In an apartment building, residents need to ask the building manager about the emergency protocols, McKelvey said.

In the Bronx fire, some survivors told reporters that they ignored the smoke alarm at first because they were used to false alarms. Even when that is not the case, people in high-rise buildings and hotels often hesitate to evacuate, McKelvey said.

“People don’t respond until they see real signs of danger, but by that time it is most likely too late to escape,” she said.

Kelly’s coffers are healthy TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Facing a tough reelection race in Kansas, Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly raised more cash last year, spent more money and entered this year with more funds than her presumed Republican opponent.

Campaign finance reports filed Monday by the campaigns for Kelly and Attorney General Derek Schmidt suggest that their contest could be unusually expensive for Kansas. Their reports covered last year.

Schmidt claimed to set an off-year record for fundraising by a Republican candidate for governor, though his figure was short of the $2 million then-Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius raised in 2005 ahead of her reelection race in 2006. Kelly bested Sebelius’ figure.

Kelly reported raising almost $2.05 million.

That’s $412,000 or 25% more than the $1.64 million Schmidt raised after launching his campaign in early March.

But Kelly also spent more twice as much on her campaign last year as Schmidt did, more than $762,000 compared to Schmidt’s roughly $331,000.

Kelly started the year with nearly $655,000 in campaign funds to Schmidt’s zero, and that advantage allowed her to enter this year with 49% more cash on hand, $1.94 million compared to Schmidt’s $1.31 million.

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By NICHOLAS GOLDBERG Los Angeles Times

Can democracy be snuffed out? You bet it can. Just look at what’s happening in Hong Kong.

My last visit there was at the end of 2019, right before the pandemic, during what seems in retrospect to have been the final stand of the pro-democracy movement.

In those days, pop-up demonstrations were a regular event, including clashes in the streets between masked activists and police officers.

The Hong Kong government was already cracking down on dissent and increasingly siding with Beijing’s efforts to bring the city under its total control. But independent news organizations still challenged the erosion of democratic freedoms. Opposition politicians spoke out in defense of autonomy and independence.

Everywhere there were signs of debate, dissent and resistance: detritus from the previous night’s protests, peeling wall posters and angry anti-government graffiti.

But those days are over.

The protests have been beaten back. More than 100 pro-democracy leaders and activists have been charged under the draconian national security law imposed in June 2020. Thousands of demonstrators have been arrested as well; the charges include subversion and separatism.

Government is being purged of critics. In 2021, Hong Kong and Chinese authorities demanded that elected officials and candidates for office pledge their loyalty not just to Hong Kong and its laws, but to Beijing as well. Hundreds of members of Hong Kong’s district councils resigned or were removed from office. Even those who swore fealty were removed if the authorities didn’t find their pledges credible.

The repression of the independent media has been intense — and successful. In the final week of December, Stand News, an independent pro-democracy website, was raided by hundreds of police officers; seven editors, board members and a journalist were arrested and the organization said the site would be taken down. A few days later, on Jan. 3, Citizen News, a small online news site, said it too would stop publishing due to fears for the safety of its staff.

They were among the last remaining independent voices in the city.

Their closure followed the shutdown in June of the feisty, inde- Jimmy Lai pendent tabloid Apple Daily, owned by clothing tycoon Jimmy Lai, who is now in prison.

The teachers union and the city’s largest independent trade union were disbanded in 2021, as was the Civil Human Rights Front, which had organized some of the biggest pro-democracy demonstrations.

Police and courts have become “tools of Chinese state control rather than independent and impartial enforcers of the rule of law,” said Human Rights Watch in June.

Since my visit, academic freedom has been threatened, museums harassed, films canceled, monuments

removed, political slogans banned and books removed from libraries.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam is now merely a functionary of the government in Beijing.

THIS IS HOW democracies disappear. Without leaders who dare to speak out, without venues to publish or broadcast independent news, without recourse to an independent judicial system, without basic rights and liberties guaranteed and protected by the government, there’s no way for the people of Hong Kong to stand firm against the encroaching overlords from the mainland.

Their subjugation is terribly depressing to watch.

The city was under British colonial rule for more than 150 years, until 1997, when the United Kingdom handed it over to China. At that time, the Chinese government agreed to allow a significant measure of political autonomy and personal freedom for 50 years under a framework known as “one country, two systems.”

But that promise has been broken.

The United States government decries the situation, of course. After Stand News was shut down two weeks ago, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said “Journalism is not sedition…. A confident government that is unafraid of the truth embraces a free press.”

But what is the U.S. prepared to do about it? There’s a limit to how much pressure the American government will put on a mighty superpower like China to protect the people of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong matters more to China than it does to us.

If nothing else, what’s occurring in Hong Kong is a reminder that democracy is fragile. That’s something we should take to heart.

There was a period just after the Cold War ended when some people believed the forward march of democracy had become irreversible, that the collapse of dictatorships was inevitable, that the liberal democratic order had triumphed over totalitarianism and despotism. In the early 2000s, the number of free and democratic countries grew dramatically, by all sorts of measures.

But in recent years, democracy has been in retreat.

The Economist’s “Democracy Index” for 2020, for instance, found that thanks to “democratic backsliding,” only 8.4% of the world’s people were now living in what could be considered full democracy. The index’s “global democracy score” was lower than its been since it was created in 2006.

Backsliding has occurred here at home, too. The Economist now classifies the U.S. as a flawed democracy. And in March of last year, the U.S. fell to a new low in an annual global ranking of political rights and civil liberties by Freedom House, earning 83 out of 100 points, down from 94 a decade earlier.

So we can’t be complacent.

Democracy, the rule of law, civil rights and individual liberties matter — and they are in jeopardy, at home and abroad. The people of Hong Kong are sending us a poignant message: If you live in a democratic system, savor it and celebrate it — and fight for its survival.

The unfortunate addition of two more dog breeds by the American Kennel Club (AKC) is being reported as breezily as if it were an announcement for a new car or smartphone. But dogs aren’t fad objects. They’re living, feeling beings — and driving up demand for “purebreds” has dire consequences for dogs.

Many people who think they need the latest breed acquire dogs on a whim, only to abandon or neglect them when they discover that they bark, shed, need to go for walks, make messes and require daily care and attention, as all dogs do.

PETA’s fieldworkers regularly encounter dogs — including purebreds — who were obtained without much, if any, thought about the care and commitment they require. Many have been banished to a lonely, miserable existence in a crate, on a chain or in a backyard pen — where they have no choice but to eat, sleep and relieve themselves on the same minuscule patch of dirt, day after day, through all weather extremes.

Some 70 million homeless dogs and cats are fighting just to survive. They’re starving on the streets, drinking from puddles contaminated with motor oil, getting hit by cars, languishing with untreated injuries and contagious diseases, and succumbing to weather extremes. Others are waiting in shelters for a loving family that may never appear.

There are simply not enough responsible homes

A German Shorthaired Pointer poses at the American Kennel Club’s (AKC) Museum of the Dog during the announcement of the most popular breed on March 20, 2019, in New York City. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES/TNS) available for all the animals who already exist — yet breeders and puppy mills are all too happy to cash in on the demand for “new” breeds by churning out more litters.

This spells misery for dogs who are caged in factory farm conditions at breeding mills, where they are bred repeatedly; denied exercise, socialization and veterinary care; and often driven mad from the intense confinement and deprivation.

It also means that many purebreds endure a lifetime of debilitating health problems because they’ve been bred to conform to harmful AKC “breed standards.”

Dachshunds’ elongated spines can cause debilitating back problems, for example, and bulldogs’ and pugs’ unnaturally flattened faces and short airways leave them struggling to fetch a

ball, walk or even breathe.

The newly added breeds are reportedly prone to bone fractures, patellar luxation (dislocated kneecaps), hip and elbow dysplasia, epilepsy and cataracts.

The greedy breeding industry couldn’t care less about dogs’ health, well-being or even their lives. It’s up to people who do care to refuse to support an industry that treats dogs like items to produce, sell and discard — by never buying animals from breeders or pet stores.

If you’re ready to give a dog a lifetime of love and care, please visit your local shelter and adopt a companion who will take first place in your heart.

About the writer: Teresa Chagrin is the manager of animal care and control at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Letter to the editor Dear editor,

Today at 5 p.m. will be my last day at Quality Automotive Services, Inc. The feeling is bittersweet and so many memories are there. It had been a good life and business for John and me.

He always wanted me to retire at 62 so we could go travel. I hope to still do that but with him in spirit.

Robert Cook now owns

the business and I have every confidence that he will do as well or better than John and I did.

It’s a chapter that is closed in the story of life.

I’ve waited until the last moment to tell people of my decision because I didn’t know how I’d be able to handle telling customers. It’s been hard enough just telling the guys who work at the shop.

My throat already has a lump in it.

I look forward to new adventures with friends and family and some remodeling projects in the near future.

I thank all the customers who came to our shop, spread the word and help made the business that it is today.

Alzina Kress, Iola, Kan.

School the safest place for kids In one corner was Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D). “They abandoned their posts and they abandoned kids and their families,” she said in a blistering critique of teachers who refused to show up for their jobs in person. In the other was the powerful teachers union.

“Relentlessly stupid, relentlessly stubborn,” Chicago Teacher Union President Jesse Sharkey fired back at the mayor about her stance on COVID-19 protocols that has forced a closure of the city’s public schools. Caught in the middle — the ones being hurt — are the more than 300,000 students in the nation’s third-largest school district who for more than a week were shut out of school and deprived of any kind of learning. The contentious standoff ended Monday night with a deal to reopen classrooms today.

At issue were concerns about whether it is safe for students, teachers and staff to return to schools for in-person learning as the highly contagious omicron

variant drives record infections. After a fall semester in which schools saw relative success in getting students back in the classroom, the surge in covid infections has presented new challenges and complexities.

Some cities — notably New York and D.C. — pushed ahead (to their credit) with in-person learning, implementing tightened safety procedures.

Hand it, though, to Chicago — with its history of toxic labor politics — to come up with the worst of both worlds. After members of the union voted last week not to return to the classroom after winter break, Ms. Lightfoot canceled district-wide instruction, locking teachers out of school computer systems. Fault the union for thinking it always has the upper hand because of its ability to persuade its members to refuse to show up at their jobs. Fault the city for its intransigence to such reasonable demands as requiring diagnostic testing for all students unless their

parents opt out. Ms. Lightfoot, who called such screening “morally repugnant,” would have done well to look at how this program worked in D.C. to get students back in school. She ultimately backed down and agreed to ramp up testing.

A lot has changed — and so much for the better — since the early days of the pandemic. Effective vaccines have been developed and are widely available.

(More than 90% of Chicago school staff is vaccinated.)

School districts (including Chicago) have spent millions of dollars to improve ventilation systems. Omicron, while highly contagious, is not as deadly as previous variants, and the virus rarely causes serious illness or death in children.

One of the lessons that should have been learned is that schools can be — when protective measures such as universal masking are in place — one of the safest places for children. It is where they belong.

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Omicron may be headed for a rapid drop in US By the Associated Press

Scientists are seeing signals that COVID19’s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically.

The reason: The variant has proved so wildly contagious that it may already be running out of people to infect, just a month and a half after it was first detected in South Africa.

“It’s going to come down as fast as it went up,” said Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle.

At the same time, experts warn that much is still uncertain about how the next phase of the pandemic might unfold. The plateauing or ebbing in the two countries is not happening everywhere at the same time or at the same pace. And weeks or months of misery still lie ahead for patients and overwhelmed hospitals even if the drop-off comes to pass.

“There are still a lot of people who will get infected as we descend the slope on the backside,” said Lauren Ancel Meyers, director of the University of Texas COVID-19 Modeling Consortium, which predicts that reported cases will peak within the week.

On Tuesday, Janet Woodcock, the acting head of the Food and Drug Administration, told Congress that the highly transmissible strain will infect “most people” and that the focus should turn to ensuring critical services can continue uninterrupted.

“I think it’s hard to process what’s actually happening right now, which is: Most people are going to get COVID, all right?,” she

said. “What we need to do is make sure the hospitals can still function — transportation, other essential services are not disrupted while this happens.”

The University of Washington’s own highly influential model projects that the number of daily reported cases in the U.S. will crest at 1.2 million by Jan. 19 and will then fall sharply “simply because everybody who could be infected will be infected,” according to Mokdad.

In fact, he said, by the university’s complex calculations, the true number of new daily infections in the U.S. — an estimate that includes people who were never tested — has already peaked, hitting 6 million on Jan. 6.

In Britain, meanwhile, new COVID-19 cases dropped to about 140,000 a day in the last week, after skyrocketing to more than 200,000 a day earlier this month, according to government data.

Numbers from the U.K.’s National Health Service this week show coronavirus hospital admissions for adults have begun to fall, with infections dropping in all age groups.

Kevin McConway, a retired professor of applied statistics at Britain’s Open University, said that while COVID-19 cases are still rising in places such as southwest England and the West Midlands, the outbreak may have peaked in London.

The figures have raised hopes that the two countries are about to undergo something similar to what happened in South Africa, where in the span of about a month the wave crested at record highs and then fell significantly.

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pens in other places.

The concrete is tested and the cracking does not affect the structural integrity, he said. The cracks will be filled.

“They’re monitoring it to make sure it’s not moving,” he said.

WILLIS also gave an update on complete projects at the middle and high schools.

The HVAC system at the middle school is working, but crews are working through problems in two restrooms and an office.

Overhead radiant heat in those rooms isn’t efficient and needs to be improved.

That will be addressed, as crews are now working at the elementary school site so they can easily be pulled over to the middle school to do the work, Willis said.

A punch list of items at the new science center continues to be whittled down, Willis said. A garage door that separates the robotics class-

room from the commons area was just installed, with a few adjustments.

A large video wall in the commons area will be installed in March, Willis said.

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County: Highway detours are a concern must come from other budget sources. Using ARPA funds in other ways could make money available to do so.

“I hate to say it this way, but it’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, and then paying Peter with ARPA,” Daniels said.

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weight limit also could be affected.

Commissioners said they weren’t as worried about the increase in truck traffic on those roads, but did have some concerns about the weight limits.

KDOT engineers Troy Howard and Wayne Gudmonson assured commissioners the work would be completed relatively quickly.

Construction crews have a financial incentive of about a half million dollars to complete the work early, they said.

“These guys are banking on that incentive,” Gudmonson said. “They aren’t messing around.”

The highway must be opened to unrestricted traffic in mid-November, so it will be open by Thanksgiving.

The engineers also talked about other area highway projects that could affect Allen County, including a repaving project from Yates Center to Iola this summer.

and other entities.

It’s important to set priorities so those entities can make plans and set timelines for their projects, Chairman Jerry Daniels said.

COLA raises

ARPA funds

The federal government released final guidelines as to what projects qualify for the American Rescue Plan Act, Jonathon Goering, economic development director for Thrive Allen County, said.

Thrive is administering the federal relief funds for the county.

Goering said Thrive staff were reviewing the guidelines.

Commissioner Bruce Symes asked Goering to provide an updated spreadsheet and report so commissioners could take stock of where things stand. They want to know how much money has already been spent, what requests have been received, and which projects were requested by the county

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Jonathon Goering, economic development director for Thrive Allen County, updates commissioners about the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).

Commissioners discussed the possibility of giving either 4% or 5% cost-of-living adjustment for county employees.

Recent increases in inflation led them to increase the percent more than they had expected when they set the budget for 2022. Originally, the budget allowed for a 3% COLA. But federal inflation rates are currently 5.9%.

Because of the higher wage rates, commissioners decided to forgo merit raises.

A 4% increase would add about $138,360 to the county’s annual budget. A 5% increase would add an estimated $173,016.

Daniels and Symes said they’d prefer to increase the wages by 5%,

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citing the need to stay competitive and invest in employees.

Commissioner David Lee said he wanted at least one week to review the numbers and consider the matter, but he was in favor of either 4% or 5%.

Daniels also raised the issue of using ARPA funds to provide additional pay for emergency workers during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rules for using ARPA for that reason are very restrictive, Symes cautioned. Only about 25% of county employees would qualify.

Commissioners said they were in favor of determining some type of process to pay county workers, even if that meant the money

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IN OTHER news, commissioners: • Appointed Daniels as chairman during an annual reorganization.

Bruce Symes had previously served as chairman.

• Heard from Jason Trego, emergency management director, who updated commissioners on the recent purchase of a used generator that will be made available during emergencies.

The generator was larger than expected, and needed to be weighed to see if it could be pulled by the department’s Ford Explorer.

Daniels suggested Trego look into the possibility of trading the Explorer for a larger truck that not only could pull the generator but would allow the department greater flexibility of delivering supplies during an emergency.

Murphy said his department had a couple of trucks it was looking to trade, and one might be a good option.

• Terry Call, planning and zoning administrator, announced his retirement, effective in March.

• Daniels recognized the passing of David Ingle, an Iola Police officer who died last week from COVID-related complications.

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Middle school Mustangs struggle vs Eagles

By REESE BECKER The Iola Register

The Iola Middle School boys basketball team had a tough go against Wellsville Tuesday night. The Mustangs went 1-3 against the Eagles.

The seventh grade B team lost 32-7. The seventh grade A team lost 35-18. The eighth grade B team were winners for Iola, 16-15, the eighth grade A team lost 42-20.

The seventh grade B team came out sluggish and couldn’t make shots early, That was not the case for the Eagles, as they came out raining shots down, with a good percentage of those going in.

The defense wasn’t there for Iola, but keep in mind, for a lot of these players it’s their first organized basketball games.

After shutting Iola out in the second quarter, Wellsville led 16-2 at halftime,

Iola looked a lot better in the second half. The defense, while better, still gave up eight points per quarter but the offense stepped up and got better shots and rebounded much better. While there is still work to be done, you can see a good team coming together and working hard each night. Down the stretch in the fourth quarter, Iola sent Franklin Kerr to the line and he made 1-2 free throws, the only free throws of the night for Iola.

Kerr scored three points.

Ruger Boren and Landon Shelton both scored two each.

The seventh grade A game was tight early. Neither team established a lead despite the Eagles having a slight size advantage over the Mustangs. Iola failed to capitalize on missed shots and allowed Wellsville too many rebounds and second chance shots.

Toward the end of the quarter that doomed the

Mustangs and Wellsville began to open up a gap. Iola wasn’t able to find good shots often in the first half and turned the ball over too often for their liking while Wellsville got to the paint and finished close to the rim. Wellsville went on a 9-0 run to open the second until Amos Rutoh made a three pointer to put a spark in Iola.

Wellsville led 24-12 at the half.

The third quarter was much of the same as Wellsville continued to play well on both ends, giving the Mustangs fits. Once the fourth quarter came, Iola stepped up a little bit and made life harder on Wellsville, but at that point Wellsville had established a big enough lead.

All the Eagles needed to do was work the clock and escape with the win.

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Iola’s Noah Schowengerdt shoots against a Wellsville defender.

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Marmaton Valley and Crest split YC boys win streak

ends vs. Southeast

By REESE BECKER The Associated Press

Marmaton Valley High and Crest had two drastically different games on Tuesday.

Marmaton Valley won the girls game 41-17. Crest’s boys topped the Wildcats 50-23.

The girls game was dominated by the continued outstanding play of Marmaton Valley sophomore Janae Granere who had 26 points to lead the Wildcats. The game’s outcome was really never in doubt for Marmaton Valley as the Wildcats led 14-5 at the half after shutting out the Lancers in the first quarter.

Marmaton Valley’s sound defense enabled the offense to live up to its full potential in the second half, with a 16-point third quarter, led by 12 points from Granere.

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Marmaton Valley’s Brayden Lawson tries to work around Crest’s Ethan Godderz. PHOTO BY KAITLYN DRAKE/MVHS good shots all night, but it came to roost in the fourth, with four of Crest’s seven points coming via free throws, only making two field goals in the final quarter. The Lancer defense stepped up to

stop Granere but did send her to the free throw line where she made three of her four shots to help the Wildcats hold on and move to 5-1 on the season. Crest is now 1-6.

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Yates Center boys saw their three-game winning streak come to a close Tuesday at the hands of Southeast-Cherokee.

The Wildcats started off sluggish and never quite found a groove as the Lancers came out on fire, raining down accurate shots to take a 37-12 lead at the half.

The lead for Southeast was punctuated by a 23-point second quarter, while their defense held Yates Center to just 12 points in the entire first half.

Southeast kept their foot on the gas in the second half but Yates

Center put together a 10-point third quarter to try and pull back some of the Lancer lead. That offensive outburst would be short-lived, though.

Southeast’s defense stiffened in the fourth and held the Wildcats to two points to seal a dominant win over a Yates Center team that has been surging as of late.

Jack King led Yates Center with 10 points.

Cash Cummings had 7.

Sean Hurst scored 5. Garrett Audiss had 2.

Up next for Yates Center is a trip to Pleasanton on Friday as the Wildcats try to get back in the win column.

Chiefs sluggish entering playoffs against Steelers

By DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press

The Kansas City Chiefs did what they had to Saturday, beating the Broncos on the road to finish up the regular season.

Too bad the Titans did what they had to Sunday, too.

So rather than have the No. 1 seed and a first-round bye, the Chiefs will face seventh-seeded Pittsburgh on Sunday night in the wildcard round at Arrowhead Stadium. It will be a rematch of a game from just a few weeks ago, when the Chiefs led 23-0 by halftime and rolled through the second half in a 36-10 romp.

“When you get a firstround bye, it’s more of a win because you’re getting past a round in the playoffs, which are never easy,” Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes said. “But we’re ready to go

Travis Kelce (87) of the Kansas City Chiefs celebrates his reception for a touchdown during the first quarter against the Denver Broncos. JAMIE SCHWABEROW/GETTY IMAGES/TNS wherever against whoever.

We just go in with the mindset of we’re going to have to play each-and-every week to get back to that Super Bowl.”

The Chiefs didn’t exact-

ly cruise into the playoffs, though. The hot streak they were on when they played Pittsburgh ended the next week, when the Bengals not only ended their eight-game

win streak but also knocked them from first place in the conference.

And they weren’t exactly great against the Broncos on Saturday, either.

The Chiefs struggled to contain the Denver ground game, gave up too many long runs to fill-in Broncos quarterback Drew Lock and trailed on the scoreboard until the fourth quarter. That’s when linebacker Nick Bolton bailed them out by taking a fumble 86 yards for a score that finally gave Kansas City the lead for good in a 28-24 win.

“That was a big play. That was a big-time play by a bigtime player,” Mahomes said.

“That’s why we brought Melvin (Ingram III) over here: to make plays like that. He made a big play for us, Nick picked it up and got to the end zone.”

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Stanford returns from layoff to knock off No. 5 USC STANFORD, Calif.

(AP) — Harrison Ingram and Spencer Jones scored 21 points apiece and Stanford beat No. 5 Southern California 7569 Tuesday for its first win over a top five team in nearly 15 years.

The Cardinal (9-4, 2-1 Pac-12) returned from a nearly three-week break for COVID-19 protocols and delivered a big win in a nearly empty arena. Stanford had lost 14 straight games against teams in the top five of the AP poll since beating No. 3 UCLA 75-68 on Jan. 28, 2007.

“This is the best win since I’ve been here. Easily,” Jones said. “I’ll tell

you what, we’re not finished. We still know that there’s top 10 teams in this conference that we want to go at. So we’re definitely not done.”

Isaiah Mobley scored 16 points to lead the Trojans and Boogie Ellis added 14.

The Trojans (13-1, 3-1) were looking to tie the 2016-17 team for the school’s best start in more than 50 years but came up short at the end against Stanford. The loss coupled with No. 1 Baylor’s defeat means there are no unbeaten teams left in the country.

“We just didn’t defend at a high enough level, and offensively

we couldn’t make open shots,” USC coach Andy Enfield said. “We had plenty of good looks. ...

Our offense didn’t give our defense much margin for error. We weren’t good on either side of the ball, as we have been for most of the season.”

Noah Taitz hit backto-back 3-pointers midway through the second half to give Stanford a 50-49 lead. The game remained tight from there until Stanford started to open it up late.

James Keefe tied the game with a layup with 3:50 to go, starting an 8-2 run that gave the Cardinal a 70-66 lead on two free throws from Ingram

with 1:18 to play.

USC missed six of seven shots and three free throws over the final five minutes.

“Our number one key to the game plan was just to be the toughest team out there,” Jones said. “We knew it was going to be a battle boxing out all those big guys. We just kept battling and we knew we could never give up that aspect. We lost the rebounding battle by one, but I feel like we were the toughest time out there.”

competition since an overtime loss to UCLA on Feb. 28, 2019. But they were never able to build a cushion against the Cardinal and came up short.

Stanford: The Cardinal missed eight of nine shots during a stretch in the first half and trailed by seven before scoring the final six points be-

fore the break to make it 33-32. That was about the only signs of rust they showed in their return to action.

“If you can’t get excited for a top five team after sitting out for almost three weeks then our guys don’t have a pulse and I know they do have a pulse,” coach Jerod Haase said.

BIG PICTURE

USC: The Trojans had won 20 straight games against in-state

KC: Chiefs sluggish entering playoffs Continued from B1

an extra day to rest up and get ready for a playoff run.

“We’ll be ready,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. “We’re going to utilize whatever time we have to make sure we get ourselves right for the next game.”

WHAT’S WORKING

While the Broncos followed the tried-andtrue game plan of doubling Travis Kelce, and Tyreek Hill who was hobbled by a nagging injury, the rest of the receiving group took a step forward. Mecole Hardman caught eight passes for 103 yards, Byron Pringle caught five balls for 56 yards and Demarcus Robinson had three catches for 19 yards.

WHAT NEEDS HELP

Pregame warmups.

Two weeks ago in Cincinnati, left tackle Orlando Brown Jr. hurt his calf muscle and was unable to play, an injury compounded by replacement Lucas Niang hurting his knee after five offensive plays.

This week, Hill aggravated a heel injury— though he did play a bit — while jumping up to catch a pass in warmups.

STOCK UP

Bolton got off to a slow start during his rookie season, but he’s finishing it in a hurry.

As in, hurrying to the end zone for that touchdown return against the Broncos. The young linebacker also led the Chiefs in tackles on

Saturday, though that has become the norm during the second half of the season.

STOCK DOWN

Frank Clark’s mercurial season continued in Denver, where one of the highest-priced players in the NFL had a single tackle without putting any pressure on the quarterback. Clark has 4 1/2 sacks this season while carrying a salary cap hit of $28.5 million, which means Kansas City is paying about $6.3 million per sack. That’s bad business.

INJURIES

Hill is expected to be fine going forward. Darrel Williams is dealing with a toe injury, further thinning the running back group. RB

Clyde Edwards-Helaire still hasn’t practiced since hurting his collarbone against Pittsburgh a few weeks ago.

KEY NUMBER

3 — The Chiefs turn their attention to the playoffs with the goal of reaching a third straight Super Bowl.

They also could host a fourth consecutive AFC championship game if things fall the right way for them.

WHAT’S NEXT

The Chiefs and Steelers meet again in the playoffs. They’ve won the past two against Pittsburgh, but it was Mike Tomlin’s bunch that won their previous playoff matchup in January 2017. That also was a wild-card game played in Kansas City.

Iola: Middle school team hosts Eagles Continued from B1

eight points. Amos Rutoh scored six. Austin Crooks scored four.

“The train is moving in the right direction for the seventh-graders,” said Iola head coach Ben Wiehn.

“They are getting better every practice.”

The eighth grade B team started slowly, but so did Wellsville as neither could keep possession of the ball in the first quarter, leading to bad shots. Despite that, Wellsville built up a slight lead. Iola was plagued by turnovers in the second, allowing Wellsville to extend that lead.

The Eagles led 9-2 at the half.

It was a tale of two halves for the Mustangs

though, as they opened the second half on a 10-0 run to take a 10-9 lead halfway through the third. Iola’s offensive dominance would slow toward the end of the quarter as turnovers reared their ugly head again, allowing Wellsville to make up some of the ground lost early in the third.

The fourth quarter was a dog fight, both teams getting more physical as time ran out. With 20 seconds left, Wellsville had the ball on their end of the court down by one, but couldn’t find an open shot. With less than a second left, the Eagles inbounded the ball but failed to put the shot up, giving Iola the win.

Jayden Beene

scored eight points.

Baron Folk and Isaac Velazquez each scored four.

The eighth grade A team started sluggish and didn’t rebound well early, allowing Wellsville to get too many extra shots. Turnovers plagued the Mustangs, but what was worse was the strong shooting from Wellsville as they opened a large lead.

Iola’s problems continued in the second quarter as they couldn’t get good looks at the basket.

Wellsville led 22-8 at the half.

Iola shot better in the third but failed to get rebounds as they went on an 8-3 run to open the quarter. Wellsville came back at the end of

the quarter and made some key shots.

Wellsville dominated the fourth, outscoring Iola 11-4 to hold on for the win.

Noah Schowengerdt scored 12 points. Mat Drago, Brennen Coffield, Jayden Beene, and Hayden Kelley each scored two points.

“We had an issue with the eighth grade roster tonight,” Wiehn said. “We had four guys who usually play on the B team that got a lot of work on the A team. We lost, but I’m happy. The attitude and effort is there.”

Iola’s scheduled game at Prairie View on Thursday has been rescheduled for Feb. 7. The Mustangs’ next game is Tuesday versus Osawatomie.

Marmaton Valley’s Kendall Scharff looks for a teammate Tuesday against Crest. PHOTO BY HALIE LUKEN/MVHS

MV: Crest split Continued from B1

Granere’s 26 led Marmaton Valley. Aly Ard had five. Brynn Newman had four. Payton Scharff, Kendall Scharff and Tayven Sutton each had two.

Crest was led by McKenna Hammond with seven points. Lindsey Godderz had six. Kayla Hermreck had two. Vivian Noah and Cursten Allen each had one.

Crest came out firing on all cylinders in the boys game, preventing Marmaton Valley’s key players from getting anything going early while the Lancers dominated on both ends of the floor.

Four points in each of the two opening quarters weren’t enough as Crest spread the ball and had five different players score in the first half.

The Lancers led 16-8 at the half.

If Crest dominated the first half, they really turned it up in the second, scoring 34 points down the stretch while the Lancer defense

suffocated the Wildcats.

Crest continued to spread the ball around, with eight Lancers scoring. Marmaton Valley did a good job of this also, with six Wildcats scoring points. The size of Crest was too much for the Wildcats down the stretch though.

Marmaton Valley is 1-5 on the season while Crest is 4-3 and has won two games in a row.

Marmaton Valley was led by Jaedon Granere with seven points. Chase Smith scored five. Quincy Adams scored four.

Bryce Ensminger, Dylan Drake, and Wyatt Ard each scored two. Brayden Lawson scored one.

Crest was led by Ethan Prasko with 14 points. Keaton Davis had 11. Karter Miller had seven. Ethan Godderz and Matt Beckmon each had five. Holden Barker and Stetson Setter both had three. Rogan Weir had two.

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Texas Tech KU survives wild finish MLB talks to knocks off resume No. 1 Baylor WACO, Texas (AP) — Texas Tech ended No. 1 Baylor’s nation-best winning streak at 21 games, getting 12 points and a key 3-pointer from Kevin McCullar in a 65-62 win over the Bears on Tuesday night.

The 19th-ranked Red Raiders (12-3, 2-1 Big 12) had their biggest lead at 59-52 when McCullar hit the 3 from the left corner in front of their bench with 2:39 left, and they held on for their second consecutive victory over a top-10 team.

Adam Flagler and James Akinjo each had 17 points for Baylor (15-1, 3-1), which fell two short of matching its own Big 12 record of 23 consecutive wins set two seasons ago.

Baylor was the last Division I team to lose this season. Fifthranked Southern California (13-1) was also undefeated before a 75-69 loss at Stanford earlier Tuesday.

Davion Warren hit two free throws for the Red Raiders with 22 seconds left before a timeout. Baylor then moved the ball around with Flagler passing to Akinjo, who bobbled the ball at the top top of the key before gathering it and taking a 3-pointer that hit off the front of the rim as time expired.

Texas Tech beat then-No. 6 Kansas at home on Saturday without McCullar and leading scorer Terrence Shannon, who also missed the game against the defending national champions.

Adonis Arms had 14 points for the Red Raiders, while Kevin Obanor and Bryson Williams had 13 each.

Clarence Nadolny had 11 points.

McCullar had missed the previous two games after hurting his ankle in practice last week and having his foot in a walking boot.

Shannon has missed six games in a row because of lingering back spasms.

The Bears scored the game’s first nine points, including two 3-pointers by Flagler.

They had a 31-16 lead when Flagler hit his fourth 3-pointer with 6:13 left in the first half, but they didn’t score again before the break, with six missed shots and four turnovers.

Obanor had a dunk for Texas Tech only 10 seconds into the second half that started a quick 7-1 run. The Red Raiders tied it for the first time at 33-33 when Bryson Williams converted a three-point play with 18:28 left.

BIG PICTURE Texas Tech: The Red Raiders wrapped up a three-game stretch of games against top11 teams, falling 51-47 at No. 11 Iowa State without McCullar and Shannon before the consecutive wins.

Baylor: The Bears had also won 22 consecutive home games, winning those by an average margin of more than 26 points.

They had had won 34 of 35, the only loss in that span by three points to Kansas on Feb. 22, 2020.

UP NEXT Texas Tech: The Red Raiders host Oklahoma State on Thursday in the makeup of a scheduled Big 12 opener postponed from Jan. 1 because of COVID-19 protocols.

Baylor: The Bears host Oklahoma State on Saturday.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Dajuan Harris hit a driving layup with 8 seconds left, and No. 9 Kansas got the better of a wild finish against No. 15 Iowa State to win 62-61 on Tuesday night.

There were four lead changes in the final 38 seconds, and the Jayhawks (13-2, 2-1 Big 12) survived when Iowa State’s Gabe Kalscheur missed a 3-pointer just before the buzzer.

“All eyes were on (Tyrese) Hunter coming down the court,” Kansas’ Ochai Agbaji said of the last shot. “I didn’t even notice that (Kalscheur) was open to the left. He had a good look.”

Agbaji scored 22 points to lead Kansas, which rebounded from a loss at Texas Tech on Saturday. Christian Braun had 13 points and Harris had 12.

“I haven’t hit a game-winner in so long,” Harris said. “I thought Ochai was going to take the last shot. I heard Coach say, ‘Get in the lane,’ so I drove and was able to make the layup.”

Isaiah Brockington scored 17 points for Iowa State (13-3, 1-3), Kalscheur had 14 and Hunter scored 12. The Cyclones have lost two straight since knocking off Texas Tech last week.

Neither team led by double figures at any point, and Kalscheur’s 3-pointer with 1:03 left drew Iowa State within 58-57. The Cyclones took the lead with 38 seconds left on a long jumper by Caleb Grill.

Agbaji hit two free throws to put Kansas back on top with 25 seconds left. Then Brockington hit a jumper from the wing and Harris responded with his decisive layup as neither team called timeout before the buzzer.

“I would have called timeout (for the final offensive play), but Och had the ball,” Kansas coach Bill Self said.

“Och drove it in to force a crease. That’s about as good you can do in that situation.

Defensively, we did a good job getting back. (Kalscheur) got a

Christian Braun, left, and K.J. Adams of the Kansas Jayhawks celebrate as the Jayhawks defeat the Iowa State Cyclones 62-61 Tuesday. GETTY IMAGES/JAMIE SQUIRE/TNS

good look, but he just missed it.”

Kansas was playing without preseason Big 12 player of the year Remy Martin, who has a sore knee.

“We missed Remy,” Self said. “When you negate your own speed, and play against guards like that, that’s hard. We looked like a slow team.

We need Remy to get healthy.”

Kansas started quickly in the second half.

Jalen Coleman-Lands made three free throws and then Braun’s 3-pointer gave the Jayhawks a 37-33 lead.

Iowa State missed nine of its first 10 shots of the second half. By the time Iowa State scored, more than four minutes had passed and Kansas led by five.

Iowa State used a 10-0 run midway through the first half to open a 19-10 lead. But the Jayhawks clawed right back into the game. Agbaji hit a 3-pointer from the corner to tie the score at 26all. Iowa State led 33-31

Iowa State women rally to topple KSU MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Maggie Espenmiller-McGraw hit a 3-pointer with four seconds to play to lift No. 9 Iowa State over 25thranked Kansas State 73-70 on Tuesday night in college women’s basketball.

The Cyclones (15-1, 4-0 Big 12) trailed most of the game and rallied after being down by as many as 11 in the fourth quarter.

“We thought we could get a three, but you don’t count on a bank shot,” Iowa State coach Bill Fennelly said. “Our kids were really resilient and played a great fourth quarter. The last four minutes were really good for our team.”

It was Iowa State’s first lead since they were up 3-2 in the first quarter. They went 6-for-7 from the 3-point line in the fourth quarter.

Kansas State (13-3, 3-1) didn’t get a shot off on their last possession and gave the Wildcats their first loss of the season at home.

“I think a win like

can give our team a sense that when things are bad we can still find a away,” Fennelly said.

“We talk about finding a way or finding an excuse and our kids found a way. I’m really happy for our kids and these road wins are so special.”

The Wildcats were led by Ayoka Lee who scored 38 points and had 11 rebounds. It was one of her best performances as a Wildcat going 18for-29 from the field and recorded her 11th double-double of the season. She also broke her record for most points scored in a conference game.

“I think we got the ball inside when we needed to,” Lee said. “I think you have to credit the guards for their ability to get it inside.

Kansas State dominated inside the paint outscoring the Cyclones 54-24 but Iowa State made 12 3’s compared to only four for the Wildcats.

“It was a heck of a basketball game,” Kansas State coach Jeff

Mittie said. “It really hurts when you have the lead we had, but the shot the ball well from three. You know your lead’s not safe and it really comes down to us not executing well in the last five minutes of the game.”

Ashley Joens scored 27 points, Lexi Donarski added 13 and Espenmiller-McGraw had 12 including the game winner. Iowa State led for 18 seconds in the entire game.

“Ashley and Ayoka are such great leaders of the teams, the schools and the programs and both of them played at an extremely high level tonight,” Fennelly said.

It’s the first time since 2005 that the Cyclones are starting the conference play 4-0.

BIG PICTURE

Iowa State: It wasn’t the prettiest game for the Cyclones, but they found a way to beat one of the best Big 12 teams on the road and stay undefeated in conference play.

Kansas State: This one will sting for the

Wildcats who led by double figures in the fourth quarter. Lee is a special player and although they suffered a loss, it’s one of her best of the season so far.

at halftime.

THE TAKEAWAY

Iowa State: The Cyclones’ 1-3 start against premier Big 12 competition should not obscure their incredible improvement over last season, when they went 2-22 overall and 0-18 in conference play. Coach T.J. Otzelberger has Iowa State in contention for an upper-division finish in the Big 12.

UP NEXT

Iowa State hosts No. 21 Texas on Saturday.

Kansas hosts West Virginia on Saturday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball and the players’ association are scheduled to meet Thursday in the first negotiations between the parties since labor talks broke off Dec. 1.

The planning of the meeting was disclosed Tuesday to The Associated Press by a person familiar with the negotiations who spoke on condition of anonymity because no announcement was made.

MLB has been preparing a new proposal for the union, several people familiar with the talks have said. The meeting will end a 42-day gap between economic talks, with negotiations limited to peripheral issues.

Management locked out the union on Dec. 2 following the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement, the sport’s ninth work stoppage but first since a 7 1/2-month strike in 1994-95.

The dispute threatens spring training, which is scheduled to start Feb. 16 in Florida and Arizona.

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Unified School District #257 Board of Education invites public offers to purchase District owned property including McKinley Elementary School (located at 209 South Kentucky Street, Iola, Kansas), Jefferson Elementary School (located at 300 South Jefferson Street, Iola, Kansas), and Lincoln Elementary School (located at 700 North Jefferson Street, Iola, Kansas). The property(s) are expected to be available for transfer of possession on Monday, October 3, 2022.

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Both of these signed documents will be kept on file at the USD #257 Board of Education Office at the address noted below. Transfer will be a quitclaim deed with all title work to be conducted by Security 1st Title Company, 108 West Jackson Street, Iola, Kansas. Cost of closing will be split 50% each with the Buyer and the Seller. Any prospective sale is subject to completion of statutory hearing and other sale procedures.

To view the property(s), please contact: Mr. Stacey Fager, Superintendent of Schools USD #257 Board of Education 305 North Washington Avenue Iola, Kansas 66749 Phone: 620-365-4700 Bids must be received at the Board of Education Office no later than 4:00 p.m. on Monday, January 31, 2022. All bids will remain sealed until date of opening. Late bids will not be considered. Bids will remain valid for 40 days.

It is required that prospective buyers provide a written letter of intent/development of the property and present it with the bid(s) submitted by Monday, January 31, 2022 to the board of Education Office at 305 N. Washington, Iola, KS. USD #257 reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive any condition of sale, to negotiate further, with any bidder or bidders and to sell to the bidder it deems in the best interest of the District, which may or may not be the highest financial bid. The Board is interested in a development plan which will add value to the community surrounding USD #257, Iola, Kansas and predict a well maintained and attractive development into the future. The bidder must submit a detailed written description along with its bid detailing its proposed use in light of current zoning (or proposed change in zoning) including plans for renovation and/or demolition, timeline, for implementation of its plan, project financing, prior experience relating to projects similar to the proposed project, maintenance plans for the property and building after construction and any other factors the bidder deems important. USD #257 plans to choose the bid and bidder which it wishes to work with toward potential sale at the Board of Education meeting to be held Monday, February 14, or within 20 days thereafter.

USD #257 Board of Education, Iola, Kansas

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